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  • 'Genteel' Ray Kelly Stumps in Canarsie | The New York Observer

    'Genteel' Ray Kelly Stumps in Canarsie 2007

  • 'Genteel' Ray Kelly Stumps in Canarsie | The New York Observer

    'Genteel' Ray Kelly Stumps in Canarsie 2007

  • In December, it bought India's Naturesse Consumer Care Products, owner of the popular Swastik soap brand, and Essence Consumer Care Products, which owns liquid detergent Genteel.

    Latest Buy to Add to Godrej's Profits This Year Rumman Ahmed of Dow Jones Newswires 2011

  • Available in Kindle format on amazon.com as part of the collection “The Genteel Crowd: Being Vulgar is So Much More Fun.”

    Beer Pong With the Nobel Prize Winners Con Chapman 2011

  • "Genteel and horrifying as ever, with a particularly unsparing examination of the rage of traumatized victims."

    The Devil's Feather by Minette Walters: Book summary 2010

  • Genteel enough to auction his daughter off to the highest bidder?”

    The Devil Wears Plaid Teresa Medeiros 2010

  • It wasn't only the plague that worried me, either; St Louis was the town where a few weeks earlier they'd been posting rewards of a hundred dollars for my apprehension, describing me to a T and warning the citizenry that I had Genteel Manners and spoke with a Foreign Accent, damn their impudence.

    Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

  • Genteel readers can listen to the family-friendly WBAI production, while you pornographers out there can enjoy the Symphony Space slimefest.

    Archive 2008-06-01 2008

  • Genteel readers can listen to the family-friendly WBAI production, while you pornographers out there can enjoy the Symphony Space slimefest.

    75 Years Later, Joyce Obscene Again 2008

  • Genteel-looking parents with little children on their shoulders and around their legs cheering notions such as “Fuck the economy!”

    Archive 2007-03-01 2007

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